Losing Eden
Why Our Minds Need the Wild
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Lucy Jones
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Lucy Jones
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Brought to you by Penguin.
A Times and Telegraph book of the year.
Today many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet nature remains deeply ingrained in our language, culture and consciousness. For centuries, we have acted on an intuitive sense that we need communion with the wild to feel well. Now, in the moment of our great migration away from the rest of nature, more and more scientific evidence is emerging to confirm its place at the heart of our psychological wellbeing. So what happens, asks acclaimed journalist Lucy Jones, as we lose our bond with the natural world-might we also be losing part of ourselves?
Delicately observed and rigorously researched, Losing Eden is an enthralling journey through this new research, exploring how and why connecting with the living world can so drastically affect our health. Travelling from forest schools in East London to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault via primeval woodlands, Californian laboratories and ecotherapists' couches, Jones takes us to the cutting edge of human biology, neuroscience and psychology, and discovers new ways of understanding our increasingly dysfunctional relationship with the earth.
Urgent and uplifting, Losing Eden is a rallying cry for a wilder way of life - for finding asylum in the soil and joy in the trees - which might just help us to save the living planet, as well as ourselves.
©2020 Lucy Jones (P)2021 Penguin AudioCritic Reviews
"Beautifully written, movingly told and meticulously researched...a convincing plea for a wilder, richer world." (Isabella Tree, author of Wilding)
"By the time I'd read the first chapter, I'd resolved to take my son into the woods every afternoon over winter. By the time I'd read the sixth, I was wanting to break prisoners out of cells and onto the mossy moors. Losing Eden rigorously and convincingly tells of the value of the natural universe to our human hearts." (Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun)
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- Anonymous User
- 21-06-2021
Inspiring
Brilliant book, it was very inspiring and hits a nerve. Something we should hear/read.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-06-2024
A memorable read
This is one of those books you will still be telling people about years after you’ve finished reading it. So so good.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-05-2021
What a beautiful book!
This is easily my favourite book of all time. I love nature, gardening and I would love my little daughter to love nature too. The author describes nature in such vivid and beautiful way, it makes me feel like I am right there in the wild. It has a lot of wonderful facts and advices on raising children so that they grow up loving the natural world. It was beautifully written, well-researched and well-narrated. Highly recommended to everyone!
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